GM loses Chief AI Officer Barak Turovsky officer after 8 months

Barak Turovsky, General Motors' first ever chief artificial intelligence officer has left the company, according to a post on LinkedIn, the second major departure of a Silicon Valley alum from the automaker in recent weeks.

The Detroit automaker had hired Turosvsky for a newly created role. GM said on March 3 that he came with 25 years of artificial intelligence experience, most recently serving as vice president of AI at Cisco.